Henry Flynn Quotes

We do it, Jackson, because compassion must be louder than pride. ~ Victoria Schwab

Sight is an important thing, August. Without it, our minds invent, and the things they invent are almost always worse than the truth. It's important that they see us. See you. It's important that they know you're on their side. ~ Victoria Schwab

God plants no yearning in the human soul that he does not intend to satisfy. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

Contrary to what you may have heard from Henry Rollins or/and Ian MacKaye and/or anyone else who joined a band after working in an ice cream shop, you can't really learn much about a person based on what kind of music they happen to like. As a personality test, it doesn't work even half the time. However, there is at least one thing you can learn: The most wretched people in the word are those who tell you they like every kind of music 'except country.' People who say that are boorish and pretentious at the same time. ~ Chuck Klosterman

I don't know if there aren't any films like 'E.T.' anymore. I just feel that the industry has changed so much. There are so many outlets now. ~ Henry Thomas

If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Concord River is remarkable for the gentleness of its current, which is scarcely perceptible, and some have referred to its influence the proverbial moderation of the inhabitants of Concord, as exhibited in the Revolution, and on later occasions. ~ Henry David Thoreau

While Ross and Cockburn were hastily burning the White House and Department buildings, anxious only to escape, and never sending more than two hundred soldiers beyond Capitol Square, the President, his Cabinet, his generals, and his army were performing movements at which even the American people, though outraged and exasperated beyond endurance, could not but laugh. ~ Henry Adams

There was always a sort of tacit understanding among women, born of the solidarity of the sex, that they should discover or invent lovers for each other ... ~ Henry James

This life we live is a strange dream, and I don't believe at all any account men give of it. ~ Henry David Thoreau

I knew Henry Fonda was my father, but I didn't know who I was. They all thought of me as Henry Fonda's son. Unfortunately for them, they never got to know me. ~ Peter Fonda

History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, and break when one has unravelled enough. ~ Henry Adams

Death, whether it regards ourselves or others, appears less terrible in war than at home. The cries of women and children, friends in anguish, a dark room, dim tapers, priests and physicians, are what affect us the most on the death-bed. Behold us already more than half dead and buried. ~ Henry Home, Lord Kames

Women who did what they liked instead of what other people wished were often accused of witchcraft, because only a witch would be so defiant, or so it was thought. ~ Christina Henry

What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another. ~ Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip. ~ Henry Louis Gates

If there is any one secret of success," said Henry Ford, "it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own. ~ Anonymous

Dr. David Livingstone left the Island of Zanzibar in March, 1866. ~ Henry Morton Stanley

If we see nature as pausing, immediately all mortifies and decays; but seen as progressing, she is beautiful. ~ Henry David Thoreau

We tell our thoughts, like our children, to put on their hats and coats before they go out. ~ Henry Watson Fowler

I wanted to live deep and suck out the all the marrow of life ( ... ). ~ Henry David Thoreau

Trembling" (Phil. 2:12). Even knowing that "it is God who works in [us]" (Phil. 2:13), we are our own responsibility. This is a very different picture than many of us are used to. Some individuals see their needs ~ Henry Cloud

Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic. ~ John Henry Jowett

The problem comes when someone interrupts the law of sowing and reaping in another's life. ~ Henry Cloud

Dollars had once gathered like autumn leaves on the wooden collection plates; dollars were the flourishing sign of God's specifically American favor, made manifest in the uncountable millions of Carnegie and Mellon and Henry Ford and Catholina Lambert. But amid this fabled plenty the whiff of damnation had cleared of dollars and cents the parched ground around Clarence Wilmot. ~ John Updike

Statistics are no substitue for judgement. ~ Henry Clay

Very hot and still the air was, Very smooth the gliding river, Motionless the sleeping shadows. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What would human life be without forests, those natural cities? ~ Henry David Thoreau

You can only take me so low. After that it just doesn't hurt anymore. Your words and blows lose meaning and effect. You lose control of the situation. I can withstand any beating you can administer effortlessly but would die from receiving. How? I have waited. I have paid. I have scarred myself crawling through the guts of the machine, seeing how it works. ~ Henry Rollins

It is not worth the while to live by rich cookery. ~ Henry David Thoreau

O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties. ~ Henry Fielding

Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Our Heavenly Father loves us. He sent His Only Begotten Son to be our Savior. He knew that in mortality we would be in grave danger, the worst of it from the temptations of a terrible adversary. That is one of the reasons why the Savior has provided priesthood keys so that those with ears to hear and faith to obey could go to places of safety. ~ Henry B. Eyring